Ariel Binder, PSC Trainee, has been named the 2019 recipient of the George Katona Economic Behavior Research Award Fund. Binder works with John Bound to study labor economics, family economics, and economic demography.¶¶The George Katona Research Award Fund in Economic Behavior was established to support emerging scholars who are interested in how economic expectations shape… Continue reading Ariel Binder receives Katona Economic Behavior Research Award Funding

PSC Trainee Anne Clark was honored with the 2019 Sarri Family Fellowship for Research on Educational Attainment of Children in Low Income Families. Clark is a Sociology PhD student working with Jennifer Barber and Elizabeth Bruch, studying housing instability, gender and sexuality, adulthood, stratification, and mixed methods.¶¶The Sarri Family Fellowship supports a graduate student or… Continue reading Anne Clark awarded the 2019 Sarri Family Fellowship for work on educational attainment of students from low income families

Paul N. Courant, PSC Training Faculty member has been named Distinguished University Professor, one of the University of Michigan’s top honors.¶¶Courant is the Edward M. Gramlich Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Public Policy. He also is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and professor of public policy,… Continue reading PSC Training Faculty member Paul Courant named U-M Distinguished University Professor

PSC Trainee Davis Daumler has been named a 2019 Morgan Fellow by ISR. Daumler, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology works with Dr. Fabian Pfeffer, and will use the PSID to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of poverty in the U.S. in order to determine who is most at risk of persistent hardship.¶¶The James… Continue reading Davis Daumler named 2019 Morgan Fellow by UM-ISR

Colter Mitchell, Research Assistant Professor of Population, Neurodevelopment, & Genetics, was honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). ¶¶The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in… Continue reading Colter Mitchell receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

William Frey, PSC Research Professor, has been selected to receive the 2019 American Sociological Association Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. As an ASA award recipient, Frey joins a venerable group of scholars and educators who have been honored for achieving excellence in scholarship, teaching, practice, and public understanding of sociology. Formal recognition will happen during… Continue reading Frey receives 2019 ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award

Article of the Year Award from ASA Family Section awarded for: ¶Margaret Frye, University of Michigan; and Sara Lopus, California Polytechnic State University. 2018. “From Privilege to Prevalence: Contextual Effects of Women’s Schooling on African Marital Timing.” Demography 55(6):2371-2394.

Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award ¶Recipients: Sara J. Czaja, PhD, FGSA, of the Weill Cornell Medicine; Walter R. Boot, PhD, FGSA, of Florida State University; Neil Charness, PhD, FGSA, of Florida State University; Wendy A. Rogers, PhD, FGSA, of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ¶For the book, “Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human… Continue reading Kira Birditt, Lindsay Ryan (Michigan) and coauthors won Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America